ETH - Cortona Week - Why is contemporary music so difficult to understand?

In Rom geboren, studierte Luca Lombardi Klavier und Komposition in Rom, Florenz und Wien, Köln und Berlin (u.a. bei Stockhausen, B. A. Zimmermann, Dessau) und promovierte an der Universität Rom in Lingua e letteratura tedesca. Professor für Komposition an den Konservatorien Pesaro. Lebt heute als freischaffender Komponist am Albaner See bei Rom.

Born in Rome, Luca Lombardi studied piano and composition in Rome, Florence, Vienna, Colone and Berlin (among others with Stockhausen, B.A. Zimnmermann, Dessau). His phd is in german literature at the University of Rome. Professor for composition at the Conservatories of Pesaro and Milan. He wrote more than 100 compositions for all kinds and genres. He lives at the Lake Albano, near Rome.

A short dialogue:

A) Modern music bores me, it does not interest me, some things I even hate and despise.

B) What do you mean by modern music?

A) Well you know, Schoenberg, Stockhausen and all these noisy electronic music. It sounds all the same...

B) Are you sure that it sounds all the same? Do you think that in a wood with 1000 trees,they look all the same? Or that the fishes in the ocean look all the same? Or the stars in the sky? Or that the so many composers of the 20th century composed all the same stuff?

A) Well,I don't know, probably not...

B) Ok,in this case let's listen to a few samples and compare them and then let’s talk again.

A) Ok,let's do so.

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